A More Sustainable Supply Chain: Step One

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For many businesses, the biggest problem with adopting sustainable practices is getting started. Sometimes, what a manager needs most of all to get started is to notice something he or she has missed so far.

When Chris McKenna, who manages a fleet of trucks for Poland Spring, learned that the company’s drivers were racking up as much as 1,400 hours a month of idle time, he saw an opportunity to make a difference. Running truck engines in winter kept the cabs warm -- the company is based in Maine -- but it cost Poland Spring money and polluted the air.

Read the post. McKenna made a small change and yielded far-from-small results. Maybe your company can, too.